The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies[2015] may give some hints
Gartner has released, as it does every year, its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is basically a report that provides a perspective on technologies and trends through the scope of an industrial oriented point of view. As it seems, 2015 was a pretty interesting year in the technology field that even surprised some. With the absence of the Big Data for example or with the absence of any technology that deals with environmental issues. We guess there are no issues about the environment anymore and they are all solved, or simply, a part of the industry still doesn’t care about these issues. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies represents technologies and trends in a graph with five main parts containing the most Emerging and popular. Every part of the graph of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2015 among with some interesting technologies are represented below.
Technology Trigger
This stage is mostly representing the upcoming technologies that are just getting started. Here are usually hidden the most fancy technologies and a lot of technologies and trends that look like Sci-Fi. In 2015’s cycle you can find creepy and scary technologies like Smart Dust, Human Augmentation, Brain-Computer Interface, 3D Bioprinting Systems for Organ Transplant and Biochips as well as trends expected to show them selves due to the radical evolution of the Internet Of Things. Those trends are the IoT Platforms, Connected Home and Citizen Data Science. Those and some more technologies and trends are triggered to get into our lives in the future. All it remains is to wait and see which from those technologies they will become actually viable and useful.
Peak of Inflated Expectations
The second stage is about the rapid success of a technology and the point where it gets really trendy because of the early and excessive publicity. There, we found as it was anticipated the Internet of Things in the top among with the Autonomous Vehicles that are rapidly evolving in car industry. Other technologies up there are Smart Advisors, Machine Learning, Wearables and some more. No technology of them was totally unexpected to be there since they are approximately all in high publicity and really trendy.
Trough of Disillusionment
That is the stage were the technology is dangling due to some of the failures that are naturally happen. The success of the technology from here is mainly based on the investments that are very depended from the improvement that providers made. Technologies that are struggling to survive or they are about to start their fight during this year are among others Hybrid Cloud Computing, Augmented Reality, Cryptocurrency Exchange and Consumer 3D Printing. There is also Virtual Reality and Autonomous Field Vehicles that have nearly done it.
Slope of Enlightenment
Here is where the benefits of the technology are getting more clear and most of the enterprises understand how to gain from the technology and how to use the new technology. Everything is approximately plant and production is starting to get into its second and third generation optimizing the technology. Here is Gesture Control and Enterprise 3D Printing.
Plateau of Productivity
Here everything is clear and the technology is clearly translated into viability. Everything is optimized and a market is created. The technology that used to be a trend starts to widely developed and is paying off.